Ammunition-clip.



F; m. GARLAND.

AMMUNITION CLIP.

{Application filed Feb. 20, 1900.)

( Model.)

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Mfrs r STATES PATENT OFFI E.

FRANK M. GARLAND, or NEW HAVEN, con'NEo'rIcU'n AM M UNlTIONQCLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. ($63,880, dated December 18, 1900. Applic ation filed remar 'zo. 1900. Serial No. 5,370. on model.) I

To all" whom it .may concern.-

' Be it known that I, FRANK M. GARLAND, a States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ammunition-Clips,of

which the following is a specification, referhad therein to the accompanying drawings.

' My invention relates to improvements in amm unition-clips of that class-which are de- ,signed to be attached to a belt or other like device for conveying cartridges successively It is the object of my invention, among other things, to provide means con nected with the clip for holding the cartridge against endwisc movement, which means will be of. such simple design as to add but little to the cost of manufacture of the clips, While providing a positive means whereby all of thecartridges in the several cliips will be in Iinewith the others.- l

To these ends my invention consists of the ammunition-clip constructed and operatirg substantially as hereinafter described. and

-more particularly pointed out in the. claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure '1 is a plan view of an ammunition belt with my improved clips attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a s'de view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a form of cartridge.

which I prefer to use inconnection with my improved clip. In the ammunitionebelts heretofore made no means have been provided tor preventing the end wise movement of the cartridges with- .inzthe'clips. Hence the cartridges were not in line with each other, which frequentlycaused jamming of, the breech-block parts and often a premature explosion of the cartridge. These defects are overcome in my device, where all ofthe cartridges are presented successively to the. breech-block mechanism in the same line.

V The clip herein illustrated is made, preferably, of a single piece, being blanked out of asheet of metal and then bent into its fined form, which comprises a base portion in wardly-projecting haped at either end so that it may be engaged by the teeth of feed-wheels, springarms B B, projecting upwardly from said base portion, upon either side thereof, and turned outwardly at their free ends, forming a flaring throatlor entrance between said arms, and detents O C, preferably integral with each of said armsl the stock forming the spring-arms,which construction is both economical and simple. I,

the clips to the belt, the means illustrated consisting of a plurality of rivets D D, passingithrough the base portion of the clips.

The shell of the cartridges used with these clips has an annular groove E therein, Within which the detents 0 Center as the cartridges are placed in the clips between the springarms.

.In the form illustrated the detents-a-re made by upset-ting As'al'l the detents are ina direct'line with each other, so will all of the severalcartridges in the belt be ina direct line,,as they cannot shift endwise within the clips, owing to the engagement of' the detents with the annular groove.E. \Vhat I claim, and desire to ters Patent,. is

1] Anammunitiou-clip,havingspring-arms, which arms are adapted to hold a cartridge;

and means connected therewith for preventing the endwise movement of the'said carsecure byLettridge within the saidarms, the said means consisting of an inwardly-projecting portion engagingwith a recess on the said cartridge, substartially as described.

2. An ammunition-clip having a base portion A; springarms B B connected therewith .and projecting upward therefrom parallel with each other, and means for preventing the endwise'movementof a ,artridge within the said clip,'the said means consistingof the oppositely-disposed inwardly-projecting deients O 0 upon the inner faces'of the said springarms, substantially as described. v

3. An ammunition-belt having means for removably securing cartridges thereto, the

said means consisting of a eiipnaving spring- In testimony whereof I affix my signature arms between which the cartridges can be inin presence of twowitnesses.

serted and inenns, as detents, npon sa-iti FRANK GARLAND; spring-arms vhieh enter a, recess in the said cartridges and hold the same against endwise Witnesses:

movement within the said clip, substantially GEORGE E. HALL,

as described. WVALLAOE S. MOYLE. 

